De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

A new post on Rorate caeli from Abp. Héctor Agüer, Emeritus of La Plata, Buenos Aires and written on November 28, 2023 asks why Pope Francis appears to "hate good priests"? He states: Several priests who follow the teachings of Pope Francis with attention have expressed to me their dismay and sorrow because they have recorded how often His Holiness denigrates priests. He has called them “bitter (cod-faced), spinsters, sacramental clerks, ambitious, gossipers, climbers…,” and other denigrating epithets. A lack of justice and charity. [Mark says: I have heard this from quite a number of clergy directly: what comfort, what encouragement do you ever hear from the Holy Father for those workers in the Vineyard? Not much! What works best? Constantly attacking those who you are responsible for leading or constantly building them up and encouraging them?]. There are thousands of priests in the world; among them there are some to whom some of the epithets that Francis’ accusations acc

  An Open Letter to the Faithful from Bishop Joseph E. Strickland posted on his website and dated 27/11/2023 As I am sure you have heard by now, I have been removed as Bishop of the Diocese of Tyler.  I was asked to meet with the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, and in that meeting I was read a list of the reasons I was being removed.  I would make these reasons available to you if possible; however, I was not given a copy of this list at that time, and I have not been able as of yet to obtain a copy despite my requests. [Mark says: Surely this points to the complete injustice of this situation? It is great that Bishop Strickland is continuing to stand up for Catholics in this way, I could not help but feel the Vatican's removal of him played into his hands. It is like the Lord has a plan to expose the present corruption and confusion and we are seeing it unfold before us! Removing him makes Strickland the true martyr. This is compounded by his own gentle obedience and cons

My recent article in the Catholic Herald - See here - was subject to some editing! A paragraph which juxtaposed the promotion of Aparecida by Cardinal Pierre with the stats for Catholic disaffiliation was not included. Here is the full text with links for reference: Recently the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) gathered from November 13-16 for their Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore. There seem to have been two main stories which have emerged from this event. One is the continuing insistence on the pre-eminence of abortion: U.S. bishops approved a voting guide affirming abortion the ‘preeminent priority’, despite resistance from Pope Francis's favoured US prelates, Cardinals Tobin, McElroy and Cupich, who have repeatedly attempted to overturn this . The second story is the open clash between Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the U.S. Military Services, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, and the papal nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre who, two weeks prio

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Bishop Robert Barron has released his own reflection on the Synod on Synodality in which he excoriates the manner and depth of reflection. We now have +Barron plus two Archbishops who attended the synod and have excoriated it afterwards: ++ Wilson , ++ Gądecki and lets not forget Cardinal Müller  who said some in the assembly are “abusing the Holy Spirit” in order to introduce “new doctrines”. Without naming him, Bishop Barron is particularly scathing of Cardinal Hollerich , his reflection suggests Hollerich, who stated in 2022 that Catholic doctrine was "false" does not understand Church teaching and has not engaged with it as well as calling his approach "absurd". He goes so far in terms of criticism of the synod as to state: "It is troubling to see that some of the members of the German bishops’ conference are already using the language of the synod report to justify major reformulations of the Church’s sexual teaching. This, it seems to me, must be resiste

"My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of robbers.” Matthew 21:12-13 Or, in this case, ravers. In February 2024, a silent disco will take place over two nights in the nave of Canterbury Cathedral. It is a strictly 18+ event, featuring plenty of alcohol and the music of the 90’s: Britney, Spice Girls, Eminem and the Vengaboys. Everyone likes a Silent Disco, but its place is in a nightclub, not in Canterbury Cathedral. Some people think that opposing this latest embarrassment is pointless, what with all the other mistakes of the C of E of late. They also say, "who cares, it hasn't been a sacred space since the reformation really, since true Eucharistic worship ceased". They would be wrong on both counts. While opposing the deeper theological descent into madness of the Anglicans may indeed be fruitless, the sheer hubris of this desecration is clear for all withinamd without the church to see. Everyone, religious or not, has a sense of